PROGRAM

Creating the Innovative Workplace

Course Dates:

25/02/2019 To 31/03/2019

Cost:

USD $ 495

Language of Instruction:

English

Darden’s world-renowned faculty members in entrepreneurship and innovation have combined their skills in this course to help you build a workplace culture that invites creativity. Learn how to manage teams, negotiate conflict, build effective networks and strategically plan for innovation.

AT A GLANCE

Drawing on the full range of Darden's cutting-edge research and hands-on expertise, you'll explore a variety of timely, relevant factors to unleash your workplace creativity, foster innovation and act as a catalyst for new endeavors within your organization. Expect to focus 5-8 hours per week on coursework during this five-week program.

This course allowed me to reflect about my own company innovative procedures and behaviors. We as an innovation lab considered ourselves on top of the game, however we need to walk the talk internally and this course provided a good starting point.

Wow LAB, Innovation Associate and Project Manager

Innovation requires a learning mindset, breaking old habits and discovering the unknown. This course will really open your mind to the possibilities!

Greg Abbey, Chief Marketing Officer, Steam Marketing

COURSE OVERVIEW

Creating a culture of innovation requires paying attention to several different variables. In this course, you'll hone your leadership skills by tackling several different topics. We'll consider tensions between short-term objectives and long-term innovations. You'll learn techniques for aligning key players and projects, balancing top-level objectives and mid-level knowledge and moving forward as a collective to make progress.

You'll also discover how successful leaders manage their personal networks, reviewing the network patterns of high performers and the traps of over- and under-connectedness. You'll learn how you can better manage conflict within your organization, and assess your own conflict-management style. You'll learn about conversations in the workplace and how to build and run high performance teams primed for innovation. Along the way you'll hear stories about building powerful workplace habits that help you manage change and innovation.

ACCELERATE YOUR SKILLS

Maximize the effectiveness of your professional network and your social patterns

Manage conflict to maximize potential

Create high-performing teams that are poised to innovate

COURSE FORMAT

This program is conducted entirely online over the course of five weeks. Each week, participants should expect to spend approximately five to eight hours viewing instructional videos and completing field work, readings, assignments and peer evaluations. Course readings are provided within the course. No additional text required.

For the course to be completely successful, participants should maintain respectful communication with the faculty and fellow participants and comply with all applicable rules, instructions, requirements and terms of service.

TAKEAWAYS

You'll walk away fromCreating the Innovative Workplacewith:

An awareness of your own conflict style and an understanding of ways to manage workplace conflict more effectively

An analysis to guide your development of a professional network that supports your goals and strengths as a leader

Strategies to energize and empower personnel and streamline resource allocation

Tools and models for designing, facilitating, and managing high-performance teams

A broadened perspective that empowers you to effect positive change and accelerate your leadership skills

PARTICIPANTS

This course is designed for managers and leaders who believe that innovation is everyone's business and know their organizations will benefit from fresh, powerful, and lean approaches to busting through stagnant problems. An independent but complementary training to Darden's popularDesign Thinkingcourses,Creating the Innovative Workplacebenefits leaders from public and private sectors alike, including those in finance, engineering, technology and administration, as well as healthcare, education and social nonprofit causes.

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